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Other Tutorials, Photo Effects | August 4th, 2008
STEP 9: Add Hue/Saturation Layer
Select the ‘Create a new fill or adjustment layer’ button which is the little half black half white circle button in the bottom of the layers window, and choose ‘Hue/Saturation…’ Use the following settings:
You should now have something similar to this:
STEP 10: Add Gradient Map Layer
Once again select the ‘Create a new fill or adjustment layer’ button (half black half white circle button in the bottom of the layers window) but this time choose ‘Gradient Map…’ Then click on the gradient to edit the colors. In this step you can choose any variation of colors to determine the gradient map of your design.
Here are the colors I used along with their gradient Locations (right to left):
#7b0300 at 0%, #a00000 at 2%, #ff7e00 at 38%, #f7ff2a at 100%
STEP 11: Add Border Shadow
Create a new layer. Then Select All (ctrl+A) and go to Edit>Stroke and use the following settings and make sure the color is Black:
Then go to Filter>Blur>Gaussian Blur and set the radius to 42.0 pixels. Change the Opacity of this layer to 56%.
You are done!
I added text and some more simple effects finish it off, the font used is Impact. Remember, you can play around with the gradient colors and get some very cool results. You can also add brushes and patterns here and there as I did below and achieve a more complex look.
If you want learn how to achieve that halftone pattern in the background, check out the Halftone Pattern tutorial.
Or if you want to make your life easier by adding the halftone pattern effect in one click , check out the Halftone Pattern Brush Set.
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